The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-05-06
Income From Many Sources.

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Income From Many Sources.
Waldo F. Brown, of Butler county,
Ohio, furnishes The Country Gentleman
with an account of his farming opera
tons last season, which many western
farmers can study with profit, l grew
20 acres Of wheat, IS Of which averaged
23 bushels to the acre, the remaining Z
acres being nearly a failure, and max
ing but 6 bushels to the acre, The
crop was sold at 70 cents a bushel, but
included in the $268 received for wheat
was $50 for wheat of the crop of 1885,
which was sold in March at 81 cents
per bushel. 1t was legitimate to credit
the farm with this, however, as I
carried over TO 1857 nearly $500 worth
of grain more than / had at the begin
ming of the year. / had four acres of
potatoes from which my sales were
made, and the yield was over 700
bushels. l sold q carload at 40 cents
per bushel, and the remainder were
sold at home at 80 cents. I grew
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Toes, which were not sold, but pitted
for a spring market. Most of the fruit
sold was Bartlett pears at 81 rs per
bushel, but there was $40 worth of May
cherries sold at about so per bushel,
and a few bushels of grapes at 81 per
bushel, or 2 cents a pound. Most of
my sweet potato crop, of which | had
over one hundred bushels, was sold at
rs cents per bushel, but about one
third of the crop at 60 cents. My
clover seed was sold at S., and what
stock I sold was at the prevailing low
prices: Hogs, 81 per one hundred
pounds, and about So so for cattle.
This seems a good place to say that
success on the farm depends more on
the utilizing of little things than most
farmers seem to be aware of. l think
that there is not enough forethought
and calculation among our farmers. l
have known many farmers who were
in debt and must meet there interest,
and ought to pay some on the principal;
or renters, who must raise several
hundred dollars, who would stake the
profits of the entire year on hogs and
wheat, and make NO effort to grow any
thing else to sell; and the consequence
was that when the wheat crop was
short, as is often the case, or their hogs
died of cholera, as they often do, they
would be unable to meet their bills.
l was taught from my boyhood that
to make the most from the farm there
must be many sources of revenue. /
remember that my father nearly always
kept the grocers in his debt, as he rare
ly won't 10 town without carrying some
thing to sell. / am not advising all to
become truck farmers, but to look after
the small sources of income, so that
when a wheat crop or a drove of hogs
is marketed it will not be necessary to
pay out all the money received in set
Element of accounts overdue. Especial
ly should the farmer be careful Il pro-
duce his W supplies on the farm.
Every spring there is a large demand
for hay from farmers in this neighbor-
hood, and / have often known men who
had left from twenty to forty acres of
cornstalks out in the field over winter,
to be buying hav al $12 a ton in March.
| do not remember ever buying a load
of hay in my life, and it seems to me
that the farmer possesses little fore
thought who does not, in the fall, take
al inventory of stock and food, and de-
termine whether or not he has enough
of the latter to carry his stock through
the winter in good condition. and if not,
to at once reduce his stock, or, if he
can afford it, add to his food
/ have neighbors who, win plenty of
cattle, win 50 mismanage as to buy but
ter a part of the year, and scrimp along
with a quart or two of milk a day.
Others do not grow potatoes enough
one year in three to furnish what they
need for the table and for seed. Then
there are farmers who depend on the
butcher and grocer for their meat.
They sell their cattle al So. so per hun
dred, and pay 10 to Is cents a pound for
beef; their hogs at to 5 cents a pound,
and pay ten cents a pound for hams.
Now the wise farmer, it seems to me,
will produce all these things so album
dainty that he will not only have a
family supply, but a surplus to sell to
his grocer or to any good customer he